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Think Tanks y Pobreza en América Latina: el rol de los pensadores en el mercado de las políticas sociales en Argentina, Chile y México
Uña, Gerardo; Lupica, Carina; Strazza, Luciano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The high levels of poverty and inequity that affect a large portion of Latin American population is among the main issues that the region faces. According to CEPAL (2007), 36,5% of the population of the region (194 million) is below the poverty line, while 13,4% (71 million) is below the extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516578
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Think Tanks in Argentina: surviving the tension between the participation and the permanence
Uña, Gerardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This document offers an overview on the conditioners that influence the development of think tanks in Argentina. The main argument is that for these organizations a tension between a greater participation in the process of public policies and its permanence in the time exists. In general, it can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005626837
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Sustainability of the Romanian Social Security System. The Burden of Education.
Oprean, Victor-Bogdan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Sustainability of the Social Security Systems is dependant on a large variety of factors of which, directly connected with the general economic growth, the human capital proved to have a decisive and direct influence. Internationally synchronized Education should, in this context, normally be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260242
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Education Performance: Was It All Determined 100 Years Ago? Evidence From São Paulo, Brazil
de Carvalho Filho, Irineu; Colistete, Renato P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper deals with institutional persistence in long-term economic development. We investigate the historical record of education in one of the fastest growing and most unequal societies in the twentieth century – the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Based on historical data from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490496
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The Role of Education in Development
Marla, Ripoll; Juan, Cordoba - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Most education around the globe is public. Moreover, investment rates in education as well as schooling attainments differ substantially across countries. We construct a general equilibrium life-cycle model that is consistent with these facts. We provide simple analytical solutions for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617156
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Two-sided Intergenerational Transfer Policy and Economic Development: A Politico-economic Approach
Naito, Katsuyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We consider an overlapping generations model with public education and social security where the overall size of these policies is determined in a repeated voting game. We investigate the interaction between the politically determined policies and economic development in a Markov perfect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583568
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Composition of Public Education Expenditures and Human Capital Accumulation
Naito, Katsuyuki; Nishida, Keigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper provides a simple theory to study how the allocation of public funds between primary and higher education affects human capital accumulation. The allocation is endogenously determined through majority voting. Public funding for higher education is not supported when a majority is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112285
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Liberalization and financial sector competition: a critical contribution to the empirics with an African assessment
Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates how financial, trade, institutional and political liberalization policies have affected …: (1) with the exception of the economic freedom mechanism, liberalization policies have generally decreased the growth of … economic freedom channels, liberalization policies have been fruitful for semi-formal financial development at the cost of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258662
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"Trade, Reform, And Structural Transformation in South Korea"
Betts, Caroline; Giri, Rahul; Verma, Rubina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A two country, three sector hybrid model of structural change with distortionary government policies is used to quantify the impact of international trade and trade reform for industrialization. The model features Arming- ton motivated trade in agriculture and industry, and a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258875
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The economic impacts of air transport liberalization
Grancay, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Air transport liberalization constitutes a whole new level of globalization. The impacts it brings can be divided into … liberalization multiplier, market saturation and the degree of liberalization of other sectors. Airlines profit from increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078688